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T1 The silence of the mother tongue and the ghosts of Ana Menéndez
A1 Alvarez Borland, Isabel
K1 Miami English
K1 Silenced mother tongue
K1 Borders of identity
K1 Liminality
K1 Language loss
K1 Bilingual writer
K1 United States
K1 Language hybridity
K1 1.5 generation
K1 Post-memory
K1 Interstitial space
K1 Inglés de Miami
K1 Lengua materna silenciada
K1 Fronteras de la identidad
K1 Pérdida del idioma
K1 Escritor bilingüe
K1 Hibridad lingüística
K1 Generación 1.5
K1 Espacio intersticial
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
K1 Filología
K1 Philology
AB What are the borders of identity for U.S. Cuban heritage writers such as AnaMenéndez? In contrast to the writers of the 1.5 generation, for the U.S. writers of Cubanheritage, such as Ana Menéndez the native language is often not available and yet it remainsas a trace that cannot be erased. Through the study of representative short stories in whichthe protagonists experience what Ana Menéndez describes as “the silence of the mothertongue,” my reading will consider the concept of liminality as an interpretative rubric oran enabling condition to study the experience of language loss. My focus on the limenas the imagined space (physical or psychological) where most of these stories evolve, willhopefully amplify our understanding of Menéndez’s poetics, since the liminal experienceallows the writer to express emotional states that are impossible to represent otherwise.
PB Universidad de Alcalá, Instituto Franklin de Investigación en Estudios Norteamericanos
SN 1889-5611
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/33766
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/33766
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 25-abr-2024